Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-08-27
MINNESOTA.

control OF any subject which is not mat
ter OF public concern.
MINNEsOTA.
R. g. Mitchell says the reported sale and
reorganization Of the Duluth Tribune, is in,
correct, and has not transpired.
Charles Syverson, living at Forest Mills
has been arrested and placed under bonds
for overworking and otherwise abusing his
children. .
| A tax of $4,000 has been levied on Red
Wing property for city purposes the coming
year. This amount is less than has been
levied for several years.
a teachers institute for Goodhue county
will open at Zumbrota Oct. IL Supt.
Engstrom will have charge. The instructors
will be 9. y. McCleary and S. 3. Sprague.
Mrs. Guile Halverson, living about eight
miles from Houston, committed suicide
Aug. IL by taking strychnine, Domestic
trouble was the cause. She was SIS years
Alfred Nelson, aged 10 years, living at
Cannon Falls, was severely injured by an
explosion caused BY the boy dropping a
empty whisky barrel The fragments Of
the barrel were driven upwards with such
force that a portion OF the roof of the build
Ing was torn away.
The county OF .Isanh recently voted to
issue bonds to build county buildings, and
has borrowed $500 from the state school
fund givinga as security four bonds, due in
1889, $50 ~ and '92.
r. NJ McKenzie, OF Anoka received tha
$50 prize for tho third best essay upon the
protective tariff, offered by the American
Protective Tariff League. There were Is
competitors from IL states and IS colleges.
Mckenzie is a graduate OF the Eiinnesotn
State University, Class $50.
Nicholas Finnora Of st. Paul, shot his
wife on Tuesday, but without fatal effect.
There had been trouble between the parties
owing to the habits OF Nnnora and his wife
had left him, declaring she would no longer
live with him. The shooting occurred at
the house Of a sister OF Mrs. Finnora.
A row occurred at dance in Sherburn
between a couple OF railroad hands
Daniel Pieffer, in endeavoring to separate
the combatants, was turned upon by one
OF them, Dennis Murray, and stabbed twice
IN tue arm, one OF the wounds being quite
serious. Murray was locked up for trial.
a report has reached st. Paul, that
Walter 3. Smith, the paying teller Of the
End National Bank of that city, who sudden
~ left Nov. %, 1885, with 1850 belonging
to the bank, is ct Fort w orth, Texas, where
ne was discovered es common Yarrant.
Steps have been taken to bring Smith to ST.
Paul : -
Patrick Derkin, a well.to-do farmer
residing near Cascade, DUBUQUE
County left neighbor's house one
stormy night last February for
proved rnavailing. Within day or two
his headless and eismembered body was
found at the edge OF creek 200 yards from
his house. a coroner's jury returned a YER
dict OF accidental drowning.
DR.. N. g. Murphy, who has returned from
Winnipeg to st. Cloud says that about a
week ago he met E. 81. Morse, the missing
insurance and loan agent at q hotel in Win
nlpeg Upon being asked what he was
doing there, Morse said he was on his way
to Fort Arthur, the home OF his father-in
l !, to meet his wife and family and take
them back to st Cloud. It is thought that
Morse's shortage will reach to nearly
$4,000.
At Chatfeld, while Horace Allen was en-
deavoring to stop runaway team, he was
knocked down and run over, receiving &
broken arm, three broken ribs and a dis
located shoulder. His head was also
frightfully bruised, it having been TANNED
into rut in such manner as to require con-
siderable strength to extricate it. In this
mangled condition he was still able to walk
to his house. The doctors claim his re-
Two men have been arrested at Northern
Pacific junction for highway robbery. The
crime was committed in a box car near
Barnum. The criminals are two young
brakeman discharged and going to st. Paul.
ihe e victim was peddler, alone with them
In the car, whom they seized and cutting his
throat, as they supposed, threw him out Of
the car while running at good speed
Strange to say, the injuries OF the peddler
were not fatal, and the spells fthe robbers
were only $40.
Senator J b Beck Of Kentucky, who has
been on visit in the Northwest, was given
banquet at the Ryan hotel, st. Paul,
meetlnga number of the citizens of that
city among whom were Senator C. K.
Davis, Gen. Sibley, Ex-Goys, Ramsey and
y Hon, T. s.. Kelly, Judge Nelson,
end many others. Speeches were made by
Senator Beck, Senator Davis, Gov. Ramsey,
Hon. w. P. Murray, Hon. p. 81. Kelly, Hon,
Albert Scheffer and number OF others.
Chicago secpial: The vermillion iron
range in Minnesota, which turned ont BIC, 600
tons OF ore last year, has been purchased by
syndicate composed Of Chicago capitalists.
Marshall Field, "a. 81. Porter, president OF the
Chicago q Indiana Coal Railway Company
and J. G. Morse OF the Union Steel Compa-
ny, are the principal members Of the syndi-
cate which paid Sc, 100000 in certified
checks and several millions in stock to NJ.
Charlemagne Tower, of Boston, for his In
terest. The purchase comprises 10, 600 acres
ofiron land, and is said to be the largest
iron investment known.
Col. J. B. Clough, of Minneapolis, chief
OF the construction department. Of the.
Northern Pacific railway died at Helena,
Mont, on the 23rd, after brief illness
BE was born In Mass, in 1928, educated as
civil engineer, and was engaged in rail-
road work in Ohio and the south from 1851
to 1861, when he settled at Minneapolis.
During the war he had charge Of bridge
construction for the Army of the Potomac.
he served two terms as city engineer OF
minneapolis and was engaged in the con-
struction OF the Minneapolis & st. Louis
| Il 4 Il and since $50 had been with the
Northern Pacific road.
a st. Cloud dispatch says e. II. Morse, q
prominent man Of that place has left for
parts unknown, and it is believed that he is
now in the British possessions. He LEFT
July 80, to visit friends ut Geneva Beach,
douglas county, and has not been heard OF
since. Even his wife does not know his
canada. An application has been made
20 appoint receiver. Morse has been
doing q very large loan and collection
business. He has been living fast for some
time, keeping many horses and fine car
Tiages, and 4, has built . $4,000 residence.